Information for record number MWA112:
Findspot - Bronze Age palstave

Summary Find spot - a palstave, a bronze axehead, Bronze Age in date was found approximately 200m to the south west of Middleton Hall.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Bronze Age (2600 BC - 601 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Middleton
District: North Warwickshire, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 19 98
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
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1 In 1971, a looped palstave was found during ploughing.
2 SEW gives SP1998 as the location, presumably from records in Birmingham Museum.
3 Vine gives SP1898 as the location.
 
Sources
Source No: 3
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
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Author/originator: Vine P M
Date: 1982
Page Number: 204
Volume/Sheet: The Neolithic and Br
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: SMR card : text
Author/originator: JMG
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Source No: 1
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: Palstave found at Middleston
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Glossary

 
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source SMR Card Sites and Monuments Record Card. The Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record began to be developed during the 1970s. The details of individual archaeological sites and findspots were written on record cards. These record cards were used until the 1990s, when their details were entered on to a computerised system. The record cards are still kept at the office of the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. back
period Bronze Age About 2500 BC to 700 BC

The Bronze Age comes after the Neolithic period and before the Iron Age.

The day to day life of people in the Bronze Age probably changed little from how their ancestors had lived during the Neolithic period. They still lived in farmsteads, growing crops and rearing animals.

During the Bronze Age people discovered how to use bronze, an alloy of tin and copper (hence the name that has given to this era). They used it to make their tools and other objects, although they continued to use flint and a range of organic materials as well. A range of bronze axes, palstaves and spears has been found in Warwickshire.
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monument FINDSPOT * The approximate location at which stray finds of artefacts were found. Index with object name. back
monument MUSEUM * A building, group of buildings or space within a building, where objects of value such as works of art, antiquities, scientific specimens, or other artefacts are housed and displayed. back

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